Drive Format; Led Indicators; About Your Wd Drive - Western Digital My Book Mac Edition User Manual

About Your WD Drive

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Drive Format

This WD device is preformatted to HFS+ (Journaled) for compatibility with Macintosh
operating systems. To reformat the device to Windows, visit support.wdc.com and
search our knowledge base for answer ID# 1550.
Important: Reformatting My Book erases all its contents. If you have already saved
files on My Book, be sure to back them up before reformatting.

LED Indicators

The power/activity LED is located on the center, front panel of the device. The LED
indicators function as follows.
Power/Activity LED
Appearance
Steady
Fast flashing (for approx. 3 seconds)
Slow flashing (every 5 seconds)
Alternating top and bottom
Description
Power-on state or power-save mode
Transitioning to system standby
System standby
Drive in use
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